Display device



July 5, 1932. R, E. SPIEL DISPLAY DEVICE Filed Deo. e; 1930 fifa/veg; v

Patented July 5, 1932 UNITED :STATES PATENT cFFlcE PANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS,l A CORPORATION F lILLINOIS DISPLAY DEVICE Application led December 6, 1930. `Serial` No. 500,490."

My invention-relates to a display device and has for one 'purposethe provision of a display device which may include a flashing light. and light pervious display members. i5 One object is the provision Vof such a display device adapted to be positioned upon the top of a dispensing container, slot machineor the like. Another object is the provision of means for maintaining such a device in posi'- tion upon Aandin conformity to the form of said dispensingmeans. Another object is the provision of va display device the lightsource ofwhich is adapted also toilluminate the goods being sold as well as the display advertisement therefor. Other objects will'appear from time to timein the course of the specification and claims.

I illustrate my invention more or less diagrammatically in the accompanying draw- 129 ing, wherein-.

y Figure l is a perspective-view illustrating my invention; Y

Figure 2 is a vertical section; Figure 3 is a section on the line 3 3 of '5725 Figure 2;'

Figure 4 is a section on the` line 4 4' of Figure l; andi l Figure 5 is. a section through a variant form of the device. f "330 Like parts are indicated by like 'symbols throughout the specification and drawing.

Referring to the drawing, A generally indicatesa dispensing device or container, such for example as a slot machine. A1 indicates a vending window. Themachine is shown as having a square-or flat top A2 and a vertical forward face A3.

B generally indicates an advertising display device which includes a horizontal boti tom wall B1, another horizontal bottom wall B2 and a connecting bottom wall B2, perpendicular to B1 and B2 and connecting them, B1 and B2 being offset as shown in Figures 1 and 2. The wall B1 conforms generally in shape and form to the top A2 of the dispensing container and the wall B3 is shown as abutting against the front wall A3 of said container. In order to hold the display device against lateral movement yin re- "'5`0` lation to the container I provide corner angle members Badapted to engage ,the rear corners of the member A, as'shown in Figures l and 2. It will be'seen that the corn ner angles B15 prevent both forward and lat"-` eral movement of the display device ,inreey lation to the member B, whereas the downwardly projecting wall Bprevents its rearward movement. rIfhe display device is completed by side walls B4, arear wall B5 and B10 are intermediate channels, dividing the front of the display y device, in theform herein shawn, into two parts. It will be understood that .display transparencies may be inserted in said chan# nels, as shown in the drawing. I' illustrate for example two Yseparate transparencies B11 and B12.

In the form of my device shownIem-n 'i ploy a flasher light C mounted in the socket C1 with the conductive connections C2. Any

suitable means may be employed for providing a flashing or intermittent light. The display members B1-1 and B12 are preferably formedl with a forward design and a rearwardfor interior design. kThe forward de# signfshows at all times and the rear or .in-k terior design shows only when the light is illuminated. Thus the forward picturemay be modified intermittently by causing the rear picture toshow therethrough; The particular details of obtaining'this eect do not of themselves form part `of the present invention and are therefore not described ,in detail. In order to prevent strain'on :the socketC1V -I may pass a conductive connec` tion C2fthroughan aperture in oneof the side walls B4, an abutment C3 being iixed on the conductive connection inorder 1to prevent it Vfrom being .pulledfoutwardly through the aperture.' As will` be seen inv Figure 4; the abutment-C3 is of'great'erisize than the sleeve `Ct through Vwhich 'the conductive connection passes, and hence a pull on the exteriorgportion yof the .conductorl or cord C2 will not tend to displace or strain the socket C1.

F or ventilating urposes, in order to prevent overheating, may provide any suitable Ventilating apertures C5. For example they may be in the side walls B4, as shown in Figures l and 2. I have illustrated a closure B2 at the bottom of the forward portion of the display housing'B. This closure may be of metal or similar opaque material, but if desired it may be made of a vtransparent or translucent material, in order that the light from the light source C may show or flash downwardly against and through the display window A1, in order to illuminate the goods actually being dispensed.

The same effect is obtained, in possibly a heightened degree, in the variant form of my device shown in Figure 5 in which a housing D is formed integrally with the top of the dispensing container or housing A. lVithin the housing D I may employ a mirror D1; Another mirror D? may be positioned within thelower display member B12. Thus the light from the light source C will show downwardly into the interior of the container A. The mirror D1 tends to throw its light forwardly and downwardly toward the display members B11 B12, while the mirror D2 deflects some of its light upwardly thereagainst.

It will b e understood that whereas I have described andshown a practical and operative jdevice that nevertheless many changes may be made in size, shape, number and disposition ofparts. I wish my drawing and description, therefore, to be taken asin a broad sense illustrative and diagrammatic, rather than as limiting me tothe precise structure herein shown.

`I claim: i Y

l. The combination with av dispensing member of a display device superposed upon l `an upper portion thereof, said display device including a portion resting upon said dispensing member and a portion forwardly extending from the dispensing member and overlapping the front thereof, the forward face of said display device including a light pervious member and a light source positioned within said display device adapted to illuminate said pervious member, and securing meansdownwardly depending from said display device adapted to engage the sides of the dispensing member other than that engaged by the overlapping front of the display device, and to prevent lateral movement of the display device in relation to the dispensing member.

2. The combination with a dispensing member of a display device superposed upon an upper portion thereof, said display device including a portion resting upon said dispensing member and a portion forwardly extendmg from the dispensing member and overlapping the front thereof, the forward face of said display device including a light pervious member and a light source positioned within said display device adapted to illuminate said pervious member, and securing means downwardly depending from said display device adapted to engage the sides of the dispensing member other than that engaged by the overlapping front of the display device, and to prevent lateral movement of the display device in relation to the dispensing member, the display device being freely removable, upwardly, from the dispensing member. j

`3. The combination with a dispensing member of a display device superposed upon an upper portion thereof, said display device including a portion resting upon said dispensing member and a portion forwardly extending from the dispensingmember and overlapping the front thereof, the forward face of said display device including a light p-ervious member and a light source positioned within said display device adapted to illuminate said pervious member, and a light pervious bottomfor the voverlapping portion of the display ldevice adapted to illuminate the forward face of the dispensing member.

4. The combination with an upstanding housing of a display device superposed upon an upper portion of the housing, said display device including a portion resting upon said housing member and a portion forwardly extending from the housing member and downwardly extending and partially overlapping the front thereof, the forward face of said display device including a light pervious member and a light source positioned within said display device adapted to illuminate said pervious member, and a light pervious bottom for the overlapping portion of the display device, adapted to illuminate the'forward face of the housing. y

Signed at Chicago, county of Cook and State of Illinois, this 25th day of November,

'- ROBERT E. SPIEL. 

